Dear Kathy,
PLEASE!Let glot show your lovely picture.

I would like to say Happy Chinese New Year to everyone, and to wish all of you a prosperous year. To those that are students I hope that this year brings you the happiness of good scores and grades. To those that are businessmen and women I wish you happiness in your work.

Always remember that a new year brings forth new challenges and solutions for all no matter what they are always face them with strength and you can solve anything.

Oh one more thing remember your family and the love and care you share with them forever durring the good times and the bad. They are your strength, your past and your future.

Your Friend

The fruit 釋迦 is called sweetsop in English. But if you check that word in English-Chinese dictionaries, you will find it's called 番荔枝. 番荔枝 is its scientific name in Chinese. Most Chinese people outside Taiwan still refer to it as 番荔枝. The scientific name for sweetsop in English is (Annona squamosa). Annona is the Genus name, which refers to an island and "squamosa" is the Latin adjective for "squamous". The adjective is from its appearance. Common names for sweetsop include "sugar apple", "custard apple" and "anon."

By the way, there's another fruit that looks very much like the sweetsop. It's called cherimoya (Annona cherimola). The cherimoya is much larger than the sweetsop.

Also there's a cross between the sweetsop and the cherimoya by the name of atemoya which is called 鳳梨釋迦 here in Taiwan.

dear lynn:

uncle glot only said "cute","clever",and "charming";but no the adjective like " beautiful" on me that is why I cant show your guys my photo. ha~~that is my reply.

Thanks, Fun. Interesting knowledge.

原來鳳梨釋迦不是鳳梨和釋迦交配出來的品種喔!

Dear Glotynn, 3C cannot describe enough the beauty of the girl.
Let us give more praise to the girl!!

She's so attractive, angelic, adorable, bright, brilliant, comely, captivating, engaging, enchanting, fetching, good-looking, graceful, glamorous, gainly, intelligent, pretty, pleasing, lovely, sweet, stunning, smart, versatile, winning, wise...................................

Kathy, can you show us your photograph? Please!!!

Haha, Buddy, isn't it way too "dog-legged"?
You haven't met her in person, nor even seen her picture yet!
Are you going to scare her more from showing her pictures?

紅豆 is called adzuki bean or adsuki bean in American English. In British English it's usually called aduki bean. These different spellings all came from Japanese. Adzuki and aduki just reflect two different styles of Japanese romanizations. The kana for it is あずき and the kanji (漢字) is 小豆. The scientific name for the adzuki bean is Phaseolus angularis.

綠豆 is called "mung bean" in English. The word mung is of Indian origin. The scientific name for the mung bean is Phaseolus aureus. It's also called green gram or golden gram.

The following tst the KK subset symbols of the IPA.

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/p/, /b/
/t/, /d/
/k/, /g/
/f/, /v/
/θ/, /�/
/s/, /z/
/ʃ/, /ʒ/
/h/
/ʧ/, /ʤ/
/m/, /m̩/
/n/, /n̩/
/ŋ/
/l/
/w/
/hw/
/j/
/r/
/ɹ/

/i/, / ɪ /
/e/, /ɛ/
/�/, /ɑ/, /ɒ/
/ɔ/, /o/
/ʊ/, /u/
/ɝ/, /ɚ/
/ə/, /ʌ/
/aɪ/, /aʊ/, /ɔɪ/
/́/
/ˏ/
/ˎ/

dear all:

hello, how to say 揚眉吐氣in english?